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Best score today · 9 AM · Sablefish
- Now
- 332 PM PDT
- Best window
- 6-10 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing4.9 ft ▼
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions · rolling from now
Conditions · 2 PM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
70Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.7 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 6 kt WNWPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
18Water temp: 63°F, hotLight: OvercastSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 5.5 ftSeason & habitat · Sablefish
Species seasonality
23Season: ShoulderHabitat: Poor fitDepth: Out of rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
Marine Area 2-1 (Willapa Bay)
No rule for Sablefish is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with WDFW before you keep a fish.
Species rules here
- Chinook salmon Retention open (6 salmon combined per day)
- Chum salmon Retention open (6 salmon combined per day)
- Coho salmon Retention open (6 salmon combined per day)
- Pink salmon Retention open (6 salmon combined per day)
- Sockeye salmon Retention open (6 salmon combined per day)
Source: WDFW · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Sablefish is best here
Shoulder season for Sablefish · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Toke Point
- Depth
- Up to 20 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · slope
- Season
- Shoulder seasonSablefish
NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 14 on a 3.4 m grid. Depths are feet below the DEM vertical datum, not chart datum (MLLW), so they can differ from a chart by a few feet. Not for navigation.
About this spot
Fishing Toke Point
Toke Point is a cape in Columbia River Bar, Oregon. Depth in the nearest water is up to 20 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads point, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 11 species here; the best right now are Chinook salmon, coho salmon and rockfish. It is peak season now for Chinook salmon and coho salmon, and shoulder season for rockfish, lingcod, cabezon and kelp greenling. Chinook salmon peak from July through September. Coho salmon peak from July through September. Rockfish peak from May through August.
Tackle & technique
- Sablefish
- Sablefish live on soft bottoms along the continental slope, and sport anglers find adults in 700 to 2,000 feet. Fish a multi-hook deep-drop rig with glow squid skirts and squid or herring on circle hooks, using several pounds of weight and an electric reel. It takes a long run offshore and a calm day to keep the line near vertical, so most trips happen in summer.
- Chinook salmon
- Chinook hold near bait off points, kelp edges and tide rips, usually suspended 20 to 120 feet down and deeper as the sun gets higher. Troll slowly, under 2 mph, with a flasher and herring, hoochie or spoon on a downrigger, or mooch a plug-cut herring at the depth where the sounder shows bait. Winter blackmouth and feeder kings sit within 10 feet of the bottom in 60 to 200 feet.
- Coho salmon
- Coho feed in the top 30 to 50 feet along tide rips, kelp edges and bait schools, and often hit within a few feet of the surface. Troll faster than for Chinook, 2 to 4 mph, with a small flasher and hoochie, bucktail fly or herring, or cast spinners and flies from beaches near stream mouths as fish stage in late summer. The hour around a tide change is often the best window.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Russell Channel65
Bay · 2.2 mi
Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 65
- Coho salmon 60
- Lingcod 54
6 kt WNWL 4:13 PM · 4.0 ftH 9:57 PM · 7.4 ft
- Pine Island Channel62
Bay · 2.1 mi
Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 62
- Coho salmon 57
- Lingcod 51
6 kt WNWL 4:13 PM · 4.0 ftH 9:57 PM · 7.4 ft
- Empire Spit61
Bar · 1.6 mi
Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 61
- Coho salmon 56
- Rockfish 52
6 kt WNWL 4:13 PM · 4.0 ftH 9:57 PM · 7.4 ft
- Ellen Sands54
Bar · 2.6 mi
Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 54
- Coho salmon 50
- Rockfish 45
6 kt WNWL 4:13 PM · 4.0 ftH 9:57 PM · 7.4 ft
Scores and forecasts are for planning only and can be wrong. Conditions on the water change fast; check the marine forecast before you go. Regulations change during the season, so confirm limits and closures with WDFW before you keep a fish.